EURO POP BAND RELEASES SINGLE IN SUPPORT OF VOCATIONS

OOBERFUSE, a European electro-pop band released a single in support
of the English and Welsh Church’s new
vocations drive, according to the U.K.

Catholic Herald.

Worth Abbey Benedictine Fr.
Christopher Jamison, OSB, director
of the National Office for Vocation,
commissioned the band to write the
soundtrack to help promote vocations.
Their song, “Call my name,” can be heard
here and comes from their forthcoming
album Seventh Wave, to be released in
August.

Fr. Jamison described the single asa “wonderful gift given to the Church. Thewords are poetic and inspired, worthy ofthe psalms.”Their previous single, “Heart’s cry,”was the youth anthem for the pope’s visitto Britain in September 2010.

Band member Hal St. John
described the task as a challenge:
“When God speaks to us he does so in
a strange and other worldly language
that it is sometimes hard if not altogether
impossible to render into intelligible

words. His gentle yet persistent call
cuts through the clamour and roar of
contemporary life treading as softly as
dove’s footsteps.

“For some, pop music is part of the
noise that drowns out the sound of divinity,
desensitising us to the transcendent. On
the face of it, it seems incongruous that
pop music, especially dub-step, should be
used to heighten our awareness of God’s
call to each one of us.”